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Here are the regional quarterfinal pairings that involve the 22 area schools that have qualified for the 2011 state football playoffs. These teams are five wins away from winning a state championship.

The pairings include the seeds and won-lost records. Seeds 1-4 will host first-round games. Most of the games will be played at the higher seed’s home field on Friday or Saturday. The official sites and times will be released early this week.

Here is a brief look at area high school football teams that are in the playoff hunt after Week Nine according to information provided by the Ohio High School Athletic Association and www.joeeitel.com.

Massillon junior quarterback Kyle Kempt reportedly took an unofficial visit to Notre Dame this past weekend for the Notre Dame vs. University of Southern California football game, according to ESPN.com.

“It was a crazy, great weekend that’s for sure, just being able to be a part of something like that,” Kempt was quoted as saying by ESPN.com. “... It was nuts. Guys from the West Coast, East Coast, South and North, even being mentioned in the same name as all those people is really a testament to all the hard work every single person in that room has done.”

COLUMBUS: Sophomores Ian Holt and Cassie Pantelas shot the best rounds of the 29 area golfers that participated Friday during the first day of the Division I boys and girls state golf tournament at The Ohio State University Golf Club.

The Copley Indians will be without starting running back and University of Tennessee recruit Aregeros Turner for the rest of the season, his mother told the Beacon Journal.Turner broke his tibia during last Friday’s game against the Green Bulldogs, a game the Indians eventually lost 42-21 despite his best efforts.Prior to the injury, Turner, a junior, rushed the ball 16 times for 112 yards including an 80-yard TD run and caught three passes for 43 yards.Cassandra Turner said that her son’s surgery went well.“The surgeon was able to realign his tibia almost perfectly,” she said.Turner is facing a 3-6 month recovery time, she said. That definitely puts him out for the rest of the football season and could delay or prohibit him from running track in the spring.The Indians (5-3, 3-2) will face the Tallmadge (6-2, 5-0) this weekend.

St. Vincent-St. Mary senior forward Lorenzo Cugini has verbally committed to play at High Point University, according to St. Vincent-St. Mary athletic director Andy Jalwan.High Point recruited Cugini over a three-week period, said Irish coach Dru Joyce.“They went all out recruiting him,” he said, “beginning with an assistant coach, the head coach then the entire staff.”He took notice, even after attracting interest from Western Carolina, Central Michigan and Colgate University.“It was important to him because Lorenzo is a relationship kind of guy,” Joyce said.Cugini, who is 6 feet 7, averaged 14 points, 6.9 rebounds and shot 52 percent from the field last season. He was also 29 percent for 3-pointers and 80.5 percent from the free-throw line.A four-year varsity letter winner, he was a member of the school’s 2011 and ’09 Division II state championship teams.The Big South Conference program is in High Point, N.C.National signing day for basketball is Nov. 9.